Fran's Reviews > The Postcard

The Postcard is a “real” novel based on the family history of Anne Berest, a French author, whose grandmother was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. The book describes research by Anne and her mother to trace the family history since Myriam, Anne’s grandmother never discussed it. She used the novel form to tell the story to make it easy to read. Otherwise it would have been full of facts and very long. French history is part of the book - Vichy France vs. the Resistance and anti-Semitism in France before, during, and after World War II. As is Jewish identity.